Thinking, Intelligence and Creativity Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Learning digits, alphabets and multiplication tables are examples of successive processing in the PASS model, because the items have to be remembered in a fixed order, one after another. Simultaneous processing deals with several items at once as a whole, such as seeing a pattern. 'Digital processing' and 'discreet processing' are not PASS processes.

Answer: C

The key gives Only 1 and 3, self-control and emotional stability. Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage emotions in oneself and others, so it shows up as self-control and emotional stability. Impulsiveness is the opposite of self-control, so options that include 2 are wrong.

Answer: C

The key gives Only 1 and 2. An IQ of 130 shows high intelligence, but intelligence and creativity are related and not identical. She may not necessarily be creative, because many high-IQ people are not, and she can be creative as well as intelligent. Saying that she will be highly creative goes beyond what an IQ score can show.

Answer: D

'Ability to sympathise' is the one that does not belong to the domain of emotional intelligence in the Salovey and Mayer model. Their model covers recognising and managing emotions in oneself and others, including empathy, motivating oneself and persisting in the face of frustrations. Sympathy, feeling sorrow for another, is distinct from the empathy that the model includes.

The model of Salovey and Mayer lists four abilities: perceiving emotion, using emotion to think, understanding emotion and managing emotion. Sympathy as such is not one of them.

Answer: C

Sternberg's triarchic theory represents the information processing approach to intelligence. It looks at the mental processes (components) that go into intelligent behaviour, and it joins them to experience and context. The psychometric approach is based on tests and factor analysis, as in Spearman's and Thurstone's work. The contextual approach and the experimental approach are not the label the key gives to the triarchic theory.

Sternberg's three kinds, analytical, creative and practical, correspond to the componential, experiential and contextual parts of his theory.

Answer: C

The true statement is that creative intelligence is one of the basic types of intelligence in the triarchic theory. Sternberg's theory has three kinds: analytical (componential), creative (experiential) and practical (contextual). The theory was proposed by Robert Sternberg and not J. P. Guilford, who proposed the structure of intellect model. It represents the information processing approach, not an 'information storage' approach, and contextual intelligence is the practical type, not abstract intelligence.

Answer: B

The key gives mind mapping, a technique that places ideas in a diagram around a central theme and links them, which brings out connections between ideas that seemed unrelated. Brainstorming produces many ideas without judging them, and the algorithmic approach is a fixed step-by-step procedure. Lateral thinking, which approaches a problem from unusual directions, is also a creative technique, and the stem could fit it as well, so the answer rests on the key.

Answer: D

The tendency that creates psychological rigidity and prevents a person from thinking of new rules or strategies is mental set, the tendency to keep using a method that has worked before. Functional fixedness is narrower, as it is the inability to see a new use for an object. 'Functional set' and 'mental fixedness' are not the standard terms.

Answer: C

Interpersonal intelligence, in Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, is sensitivity to the moods, motivations and intentions of other people. Intrapersonal intelligence is understanding oneself, naturalist intelligence is understanding nature and living things, and existentialist intelligence concerns questions about life and existence. Interpersonal intelligence is the strength of counsellors, teachers, salespeople and leaders, who need to read other people's feelings and motives.

Answer: D

Brainstorming is the technique in which an individual or group produces as many ideas as possible in a short time without judging them. Subject mapping organises ideas visually, freewriting is continuous writing without editing, and keeping a journal is regular recording of thoughts; none of them is defined by a rapid flood of ideas within a short time limit. Alex Osborn, an advertising executive, popularised brainstorming in the 1950s, with the rule that criticism is held back until many ideas have been produced.